Seasons of Sorrow & Radically Whole

Seasons of Sorrow chronicles one family’s loss after the sudden death of their twenty-year-old son and brother. The author is pastor and Christian blogger Tim Challies. He writes with vivid and heart-stirring openness about his experience of grieving in this collection of reflections. The book contains his journal entries, blog posts, and other writings documenting his devastating journey through the four seasons following Nick’s passing and how He and his family found comfort in the love of God and hope in the Gospel.

“Tim Challies has taken us into his confidence by writing with such self-searching honesty. It is a painful pleasure to be invited into these sacred moments of grief and to be helped by the reminder that God is too kind ever to be cruel and too wise ever to make a mistake.”—Alistair Begg

Radically Whole unpacks all four chapters of the New Testament book of James section by section. Author David Gibson addresses the double-mindedness we discover about ourselves when we compare our behavior to James’ challenging instructions for godly living. Specifically, when we hold ourselves up to the standards that are given, we quickly realize that we do the things we don’t want to do and don’t do the things we ought to do! Radically Whole explores this internal conflict and encourages us to manage our divided hearts and minds continually with the help of the Holy Spirit.

“The fundamental problem of the human condition is not primarily what we say do; rather, it is who and what we love instead of God.”—David Gibson